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Looking for speaker ideas.
@bassdude "reviewers are finding these are so incredible they're replacing their Avantgardes, Wilsons, etc. with them."   Who? No mention of this on their website. Cheers,Spencer 
Best divorce album?
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours+1 Beck - Sea Change 
Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ...
"MM/MI/MF side in general." Is that Moving Magnet/ Moving Iron / Michael Fremer  side in general? Cheers,Spencer 
Same song different artist. Which ones do you love? LP
Rickie Lee Jones cover of Jefferson Airplane's "Comin' Back to Me"Mathew Sweet & Susannah Hoffs cover of Bee Gees "Run to Me"Herbie Hancock feat. Corrine Bailey Rae's cover of Joni's "River"Amber Rubarth's cover of REM's "Losing My Religion"Ye... 
Pre-amp upgrade time?
Check out Backert Labs, they specialize in preamps and they sound great. I've heard them in a number of systems and they always have impressed. They also are good for tube rolling if you are into that. This is a newer smaller company and they will... 
Cartridge for Technics SL-1200GAE
How about the AT ART9, so beloved on another thread here? Cheers,Spencer 
Lumin A-1 or Lumin U1
I love the Lumin app for iPad which I use with microRendu. Intuitive, reliable, no glitches or freezing. Cheers,Spencer 
Looking for speaker ideas.
All 3 are decent choices, all 3 better w/subwoofer for rock, especially the smaller stand mount models. I'd add Vandersteen and GoldenEar  to the list. Cheers,Spencer 
Affordable Turntable Options
Hunt at local garage sales & craigslist for a Technics SL1200 for a couple of hundred and then look at the KAB upgrades and similar upgrades. Cheers,Spencer 
Idiot trying to upgrade his system - likes the tube sound
Are you willing to invest the time to rip your CDs from a computer to digital files? The best options are network attached storage drives that stream music to your DAC in the audio room. There are many threads here and at computeraudiophile that e... 
Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ...
Frank, very interesting stuff from Robert. It's funny in one sense as the 17D...17D3 all have a reputation for a more tipped up treble than the rest of the Dyna family. Does that imply that the others further up the line are too reticent on treble... 
Soekris ApS dac1101 another discrete R2R Multibit dac.
@4hannons Vearing a bit off-topic, but the any dac fed by Mac Mini's USB would sound better with a USB isolator. A Sonore microRendu would sound better still, but it has only ethernet input and needs to be fed music that is either streamed via int... 
New Technics SL 1200 GAE
Many headshells have the azimuth adjustment built-in. My Jelco, Yamamoto and many others. Cheers,Spencer 
Noise from Xfinity cable box
Yeah, but X1 DVR and its voice remote offer fantastic functionality. They are multi-room devices, so move it to another room/tv and stream the dvr content off the box in the other room to the quiet little box in audio room. One concern is there mi... 
Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ...
Just read @chakster 's link to JLTI. One point I found curious. "Optimizing Moving Magnet cartridges can go as low as 2K Ohm...The rule is simple, the lower the Load Value, the higher the damping. Most cartridges are listened to under-damped and y...